Sherry Rankin

Sherry Rankin grew up in New Jersey and has taught writing and literature in West Texas since 1997. After winning the Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger Award and being shortlisted for the Daniel Goldsmith First Novel Prize in 2017 (for an as-yet-unpublished novel), she went on to be shortlisted in the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition in 2019. Sherry has a daughter in New Mexico and enjoys gardening and walking her dogs. The Killing Plains is her first published novel. *Photo credit: Matt Maxwell